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RE: https://mastodon.social/@EvertKwok/116221061600900554

Zelfs de natuur verkiest knoppen boven touch screens. <3

The Onion wandering into reality.

https://theonion.com/actual-expert-too-boring-for-tv-1819567833/

Screenshot of the start of a The Onion entertainment article with the headline “Actual Expert Too Boring For TV” above a photo of a bearded man in a light blue button-down shirt standing in an office hallway.

RE: https://mstdn.social/@grickle/116211382715681423

This is me.

RE: https://mastodon.social/@kottke/116211355632817983

As a teenager I was obsessed with astronomy, and through my local observatory I had the opportunity to become a guide in the Antwerp Zoo Planetarium.

One condition: I also had to know all of the common and most of the uncommon constellations by heart. (You know, not to be outsmarted by witty kids.) Since I was more of a theory guy, I passed the opportunity.

I should just have invented my own constellations.

@smveerman I know… me trying to be funny, or my weird version of passive aggressiveness? If only this was the worst example… :-(

@smveerman Only in the Netherlands!

Jan Adriaenssens boosted:

I have updated the🇧🇪 #Belgium 🚂 Railway Diagram trilogy for 2026. These three diagrams are based on a 30° structure in order to fit the numerous radial lines to #Brussels. They attempt to untangle the many hourly services around Brussels. However, by 2026, some of the S trains had been somewhat systematised.There are weekday and weekend versions. In addition, a third diagram shows all single P trains of #SNCB #NMBS.
👉 https://larstransportmaps.com/rail-services-in-belgium-2026/

Monday-to-Friday diagram, based on a 30° structure, lines coloured in blue, red and grey

Saturday-and-Sunday diagram, based on a 30° structure, lines coloured in burgundy, blue-green and yellow

P-train diagram, based on a 30° structure, line coloured in red, yellow and grey

Jan Adriaenssens boosted:

Happy 20th Anniversary to the iPod Hi-Fi!

Jan Adriaenssens boosted:

Netanyahu Calls Iran Strikes Necessary To Prevent War He Just Started

Jan Adriaenssens boosted:

Walkable cities should become a pleonasm. #woonerf

A sunny European woonerf lined with brick buildings and storefronts; pedestrians walk past parked cars and many bicycles.

A bright plaza with large leafy trees casting shadows on a paved walkway, with several bicycles parked near benches and a person sitting on one bench.

Jan Adriaenssens boosted:

Following the launch of Claude Code, US GitHub code pushes were 30% above the pre-2025 trend.

Similarly iOS app releases were up 55% vs last January, and new website registrations rose 34% year over year globally after years of flatlining.

AI productivity gains have hit software in a major way.

https://www.ft.com/content/5ac2ee5f-f8bd-4f39-a759-3c5c50c8b37e

Walkable cities should become a pleonasm. #woonerf

@vicgrinberg Nice!

Where would you place this sign?

Wall text in black letters reads, “Please be advised that this room contains nudity and some explicit imagery,” displayed on a plain off-white museum wall.

Jan Adriaenssens boosted:

Discover the CIA’s Simple Sabotage Field Manual: A Timeless Guide to Subverting Any Organization with “Purposeful Stupidity” (1944)

https://www.openculture.com/2024/11/the-cias-simple-sabotage-field-manual.html

Jan Adriaenssens boosted:

Happy Birthday to Douglas Hofstadter (born 15 February 1945), cognitive and computer scientist, author of "Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid" and "I Am a Strange Loop".

From GEB, Hofstadter's law - "It always takes longer than you expect, even when you take into account Hofstadter's Law."

From IAASL - “In the end, we self-perceiving, self-inventing, locked-in mirages are little miracles of self-reference.”

How many of you were influenced by GEB?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douglas_Hofstadter
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